Φάρος
See also: φάρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Egyptian [Term?] (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?), or simply from the noun φάρος (pháros, “lighthouse”), of unknown origin,[1] but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰar- (“log, board, plank”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰá.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰa.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸa.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ros/
Inflection
Descendants
- Greek: φάρος (fáros)
- → Arabic: فاروس
- → Armenian: Փարոս (Pʿaros), փարոս (pʿaros)
- → English: Pharos
- → French: Phare
- → Hebrew: פארוס
- → Latin: Pharus, Pharos, pharus
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → English: Hvar
Further reading
- Φάρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Φάρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Φάρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φάρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1555
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